Archive - Jan 31, 2010 - Blog entry

Pensions need leverage from anywhere they can find it, including hedge funds. Amazing how quickly they forget...

I must admit that I am surprised by the sentiment picture this week. I thought the indicators would reflect a less bullish posture amongst investors.

As James Cameron's brainchild, Avatar, continues to light up the box office the world over, relentlessly charging towards a date with damn near every conceivable box office record imaginable, the Chinese government has (rather predictably) succumb to the specter of its symbolism and attempted to pull the plug on Avatar's unparalleled success. Good luck with that CFG ~ China Film Group; ask the RIAA how 'that' worked with N.W.A.

The quasi-communist / quasi-mercantilist nation's state-run movie distributor, China Film Group, has pulled the film of the year from 1,628 2-D screens in favor of a biography of the ancient philosopher Confucius.

The recent decline in Gold has not only caused mayhem in goldbug-land, but also brought deflationists of all stripes...

I get a feeling that Buffett has been canonized into a value investor saint – investors and the media worship the ground he walks on and the air he breathes. The media are unable to get any critical quotes from his investors, and nobody wants to be caught disagreeing with the Oracle of Omaha – after all he’s been right more often than wrong – and so we only get positive puff pieces.

Felt like sprucing it up a bit so here's a snapshot of what my central 1-minute ES Workspace looks like on TS ~ TradeStation. A look at price action on the ESH10 and VIX across the: (1) NYSE (cumulative) TICK ; (2) TS bid / ask Matrix ; (3) Fibozachi Inflection Bands™ ~ FIBs ; (4) Candlestick X-Ray™ ; (5) Elite Oscillator™

Ever wonder why you suck at investing / trading / poker ? Ever wonder why your fleeting relationships / government / humanity continue to repeat the same mistakes over and over again, in a humourous refusal to heed Rita Mae Brown's "The definition of insanity is...," ? Iain McGilchrist's "The Master and his Emissary" doesn't solve today's mortgage meltdown, currency crisis, cyber wars, regulatory capture or dearth of leadership (and certainly won't help you 'breed a unicorn that defecates Kruggerands'), but it does provide an actionable blueprint for how not to repeat them (ever again).